took a trip to panama.
guide ran maxcuatro 65 and 80lb. and damn. it looked legit 1/3-1/2 the size of my 65lb x9 and jbraid 80. casted further too
I know both of those companies are known to bend specs-
so what is everyone using for popping tunas , gts and other large fish?
photo of my buddy for attention
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Japanese PE braid. If youāre fishing 65lb, youād go with PE4.0 but Iād probably step it up to PE5.0. Not sure on braid that heavy as I fish bass with PE0.8-PE1.0 (20-25lb) but that braid is thinner than us market 10lb braid.
Iām an 832 guy, but I will admit that maxcuatro is the shit for skinny braid.
So far I’ve found Berkley to talk the most shite regarding specs, loads of their advertised breaking strains and diameters are way, way, off. On Fireline especially. While they do fudge the numbers, their braid is quality and it does perform well, I quite like their “Sick” braids.
Daiwa I’ve also found to be slightly dishonest.
Stick to JDM braids to get performance closest to the advertised specs. Varivas, Gosen, Sunline, YGK, Toray and Shimano all have JDM braids very close to spec.
I know someone that used Shimano Ocea 8 for GT and that’s apparently quite good.
I suggest you look up The Line Laboratory on YouTube. He does very thorough testing of a whole variety of lines. Some of his findings are pretty surprising.
[https://youtube.com/@thelinelaboratory?si=fFflnxfeW3XD91Tr](https://youtube.com/@thelinelaboratory?si=fFflnxfeW3XD91Tr)
Just go down a size. Iām comfortable fishing 20lbs of drag with 40lb braid.
Maxquatro is pretty much the same as regular power pro just rated higher.
I really like Phenix 8x. It’s available on Amazon and is super thin.